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The year 1672 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

• In London, the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane is destroyed by fire. The King's Company moves into the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, which their rivals the Duke's Company left the previous year.
• During the 1672–73 theatre season, Thomas Killigrew mounts another all-female production of his The Parson's Wedding with the King's Company. (The first occurred in 1664.) Beaumont and Fletcher's Philaster and Dryden's Secret Love were also staged with all-women casts in this time; Dryden wrote new Prologues for the productions.

New books

• Richard Cumberland - De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
• Nathaniel Hodges - Loimologia
• John Milton - Art of Logic
• Pierre Nicole - A Discourse Against Plays and Romances

New drama

• Anonymous - Emilia (adapted from the Costanza di Rosamondo of Aurelio Aureli)
• Anonymous - The Illustrious Slaves
• John Dryden - The Assignation
  • - Marriage a la Mode
• Esprit Fléchier - Funeral sermon for Madame de Montausier
• John Lacy - The Old Troop published
• Molière - Les femmes savantes
• Henry Nevil Payne - The Morning Ramble
• Jean Racine - Bajazet
• Thomas Shadwell - Epsom Wells
  • - The Miser
• George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - The Rehearsal published

Births

• January 18 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte (died 1731)
• May 1 - Joseph Addison (died 1719)
• August 2 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (died 1733)

Deaths

• September 12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre (born 1615)
• September 16 - Anne Bradstreet, first American female author to be published (born c.1612)
• December 7 - Richard Bellingham, later a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (born 1592)